Daughter - Law Dictionary Search Results
His
or mother' but the use of the word 'his' does not exclude the parents claiming maintenance from their daughter. Vijaya Manohar Arbat v .Kashirao Rajaram Sawai, AIR 1987 SC 1100: (1987) 2 SCC 278: (1987) 2 SCR
Hindu joint family
joint Hindu family consists of persons lineally descended from a common ancestor and include their wives and unmarried daughters. The daughter, on marriage, ceases to be a member of her father's family and becomes a member of
Heir
a brother or nephew, whose presumptive succession may be destroyed by the birth of a child; or a daughter, whose present hopes may be hereafter cut off by the birth of a son. (x) H'res sanguinis et
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Maritagium
a marriage gift, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 980. Maritagium, the portion which is given with a daughter in marriage. Also, the power which the lord or guardian in chivalry had of disposing of his infant
Client
of the client's interests, both public and private. The client contributed to the marriage portion of the patron's daughter, if the patron were poor; and to his ransom or that of his children, if taken prisoners; he
Maiden rents
his tenant's wife; but it seems more probably to have been a fine for licence to marry a daughter, Jac. Law Dict.
Obtain maintenance from
by her father or mother or that her father or mother are somehow managing to save their widowed daughter from starvation, for if this were to be the meaning placed on the word 'obtain', then, apparently, the
Near relative
Near relative, means spouse, son, daughter, father, mother, brother or sister. [Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 (42 of 1994), s. 2 (i)]
Nepos
Nepos, a grandson. Neptis, a grand-daughter. See Whitlock v. Whitlock, (1924) 40 TLR 566.
Nurus
Nurus [Lat.], a daughter-in-law.
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